Arts and Entertainment

Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg speaks during the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University on March 27, 2025.

How Jeffrey Goldberg and “The Atlantic” Blew “the Biggest Story of the Year” How Jeffrey Goldberg and “The Atlantic” Blew “the Biggest Story of the Year”

Given advance warning of an impending war crime, the former cheerleader for the Iraq war decided his priority was to protect his scoop.

Jun 13, 2025 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Sly Stone, 1969.

You Can’t Understand Black Music Without Sly Stone You Can’t Understand Black Music Without Sly Stone

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding. 

Jun 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore

Boiling Summer Heat

Boiling Summer Heat Boiling Summer Heat

Amphibians are dying to warn us.

Jun 12, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

These Dis-United States

These Dis-United States These Dis-United States

The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.

Jun 10, 2025 / Feature / Various Contributors

If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would

If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would

Trump’s appeal stems from the way he combines restoration and revolution. His reactionary modernism may have beguiled Silicon Valley, but the rest of us should expect repression.

Jun 10, 2025 / Column / John Ganz

Harvey Weinstein at a preliminary hearing last year for his retrial on rape charges in New York

How the MAGA Movement Is Erasing the Legacy of #MeToo How the MAGA Movement Is Erasing the Legacy of #MeToo

Sexual predators are getting free passes from Donald Trump and the right-wing mediasphere.

Jun 4, 2025 / Ben Schwartz

A former tobacco warehouse in South Boston that has been converted to apartments.

One Solution to the Housing Crisis Is in Plain Sight One Solution to the Housing Crisis Is in Plain Sight

The shortage can be addressed not through costly new development but by reusing existing buildings.

Jun 2, 2025 / Kate Wagner

Nathan Fielder in “The Rehearsal”

Who Does Nathan Fielder Think He Is? Who Does Nathan Fielder Think He Is?

The second season of his HBO series The Rehearsal—which tackles the crisis facing the aviation industry—is better understood as an extreme form of reality TV.

Jun 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz

Michael Ledeen on floral sofa in front of plants and a window facing trees in sunshine.

Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism

From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy. 

May 30, 2025 / Jeet Heer

John Adams in Barcelona, Spain, 2023.

Listening Closely to John Adams Listening Closely to John Adams

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work?

May 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Chris Cohen

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